Cleve Moler
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Cleve Moler is an American mathematician and computer scientist best known as the co-creator of MATLAB and a founder of MathWorks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cleve Moler canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4425048 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cleve Moler Context triple: [MATLAB, originalDeveloper, Cleve Moler]
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A.
John W. Eaton
John W. Eaton is an American computer scientist best known as the original author and lead developer of the GNU Octave numerical computation software.
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B.
William H. Press
William H. Press is an American astrophysicist and computational scientist known for his influential work in numerical analysis, cosmology, and science policy, including co-authoring the widely used textbook "Numerical Recipes."
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C.
John Simon Ritchie
John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
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D.
J. L. Wilkinson
J. L. Wilkinson was a pioneering white owner and promoter in Negro league baseball, best known for founding and innovatively managing the Kansas City Monarchs into one of the era’s most successful franchises.
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E.
Thomas Kailath
Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cleve Moler Target entity description: Cleve Moler is an American mathematician and computer scientist best known as the co-creator of MATLAB and a founder of MathWorks.
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A.
John W. Eaton
John W. Eaton is an American computer scientist best known as the original author and lead developer of the GNU Octave numerical computation software.
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B.
William H. Press
William H. Press is an American astrophysicist and computational scientist known for his influential work in numerical analysis, cosmology, and science policy, including co-authoring the widely used textbook "Numerical Recipes."
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C.
John Simon Ritchie
John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
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D.
J. L. Wilkinson
J. L. Wilkinson was a pioneering white owner and promoter in Negro league baseball, best known for founding and innovatively managing the Kansas City Monarchs into one of the era’s most successful franchises.
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E.
Thomas Kailath
Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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computer scientist ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ mathematician ⓘ software developer ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| academicAdvisor | George Forsythe ⓘ |
| developed | early versions of MATLAB ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
California Institute of Technology
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University of Chicago ⓘ |
| employer | MathWorks ⓘ |
| familyName | Moler ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
applied mathematics
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linear algebra ⓘ matrix computation ⓘ numerical analysis ⓘ scientific computing ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| givenName | Cleve ⓘ |
| hasRole |
creator of numerical software libraries
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promoter of MATLAB in engineering and science education ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
MATLAB user documentation
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linked to:
MATLAB
Numerical Computing with MATLAB ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-creating MATLAB
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founding MathWorks ⓘ work in numerical linear algebra ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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linked to:
SIAM
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| name | Cleve Moler ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork |
EISPACK
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LINPACK ⓘ MATLAB ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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computer scientist ⓘ mathematician ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chief scientist of MathWorks
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co-founder of MathWorks ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Cleve Moler Description of subject: Cleve Moler is an American mathematician and computer scientist best known as the co-creator of MATLAB and a founder of MathWorks.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.